Polymer Epoche (An Internet of Minor Aesthetics) Gets a William Blake Tattoo From Jamiroquai
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dramaturgy of the Call Center (2025)
Produced as a series of videos, sculptures, and paintings, this project imagines an absurd and distopic future of art education. Using recorded conversations with artists, dealers, and art advisors, the future artist in Call Center discusses rumors and career trajectories within the art world, both real and imagined.
“An Average Comet” at Harkawik Gallery
7.20.24-8.31.24
Harkawik is pleased to announce the inaugural exhibition in our newly built gallery at 88 Walker St in Tribeca, An Average Comet. Our first international survey since early 2022, Comet explores the reproduction of the exterior world in the artist’s studio, foregrounding contemporary views of mimesis, and looking at practices that copy, appropriate, borrow, recreate or otherwise duplicate. Mimesis is the foundational principle for both the oldest philosophical conceptions of visual art, and the most disposable present-day imagery. Its most simplistic meaning is enumerated by representational art, by capturing the world “out there” and reproducing it for the viewer. Mimesis is used to explain, on the one hand, a base impulse to imitate, to observe behavior and, without thinking, emulate it, and, on the other, a nuanced process by which essential features of the natural world are recreated but not reproduced, generating effects akin but by no means identical to their counterparts. It is difficult to imagine a model of visual art without mimesis, without a notion of reproduction. After all, what is the meaning of a world that is created from nothing? In this sense, mimesis might be thought of as a necessary condition of the other, simultaneously allowing for its possibility and exposing the “illusory whole” of dominant discourse. An Average Comet presents 30 contemporary artists engaged deeply in the recreation of phenomena, logics and conditions, situating them gently on a continuum between metaphoric and catachrestic activity, and suggesting a world that lingers quietly but insistently beyond the studio door.
Ēriks Apaļais
Zoë Argires
Katrīna Biksone
Chen Xiaoguo【陈小果】
Nehemiah Cisneros
Cooper Cox
Don Doe
Casimir Ernest Gasser
Kaspars Groševs
Isaac Soh Fujita Howell
Nadya Isabella
Steve Keister
Jack Kenna
Masha Kovtun
Luo Ran【罗然】
George McGoldrick
Mahsa Merci
Tanja Nis-Hansen
Nereida Patricia
Vika Prokopaviciute
Ieva Putniņa
Cake
Adelisa Selimbašić
Guillermo Serrano Amat
Olivia Vigo
Wang Liyou【汪立友】
Andrew Woolbright
Emily Rose Wright
Yang Xinyi【杨歆奕】
Zile Ziemele
“A dreaming hand wounded by thorns” at
Rachel Uffner Gallery
11.11.23-01.06.24
Curated by Rebekah Chozick
framed: 86 x 82 in (218.4 x 208.3 cm)
overall: 77 x 70 in (195.6 x 177.8 cm)
157.5 x 116.8 cm
(139.7 x 106.7 x 2.5 cm)
40.6 x 33 x 1.9 cm